Associate prof. of computer science @colgateuniv, co-founder Tumult Labs. I study privacy and fairness, and have a background in databases and data mining.

Hamilton, NY
Joined May 2009
The 2023 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR '23) is soliciting proposals for talks and panels by May 2nd! See bit.ly/pepr23 for details. #PEPR23 will be held September 11-12 in Santa Clara, CA, USA.
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Michael Hay retweeted
We're 📢 hiring Scientist interns 📢 for the coming summer ☀️ If you're enrolled in a PhD program related to differential privacy, come work with us for a few months! We've got a ton of fun real-world science problems and a great team ✨ tumultlabs.recruitee.com/o/s…
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For the last few years, I have been working on the design and development of a library for differentially private analytics. I’m delighted that the library is now available open source. I hope you’ll check out Tumult Analytics. If you do, please let us know what you think!
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Colgate CS dept has 2 open tenure track positions! Pitch for fellow CogSci folks: “We encourage applications from candidates with cross-disciplinary expertise related to…Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative…” Consider applying! Review begins on Oct 15 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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Michael Hay retweeted
Wondering whether differential privacy can solve your problem? 🤔 Good news: I just published a ✨ new blog post ✨ with a simple litmus test to determine whether it will likely work for you or not. Hope you find it useful! 😊 tmlt.io/research/is-differen…
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Another great blog post by my colleague at @TumultLabs.
If reading about technical stuff can help you think of something else for a bit: here's a new blog post for you 💚 This one explains Rényi differential privacy and zero-concentrated differential privacy with a simple intuition, and some friendly graphs 🙂 desfontain.es/privacy/renyi-…
Looking forward to PPAI 22! Lots of great presentations including *three* by my colleagues from @TumultLabs: 1) @TedOnPrivacy is giving an invited talk, 2) interns @YuchaoTao and @RyanMcK73650143 present their benchmark of synthetic data algos, and 3) a panel with @geromiklau.
Starting in less than 2 hours! 👇
Michael Hay retweeted
✨ New research ✨ led by @TumultLabs interns Yuchao Tao and @RyanMcK73650143, benchmarking differentially private synthetic data generation algorithms 📊 Follow along for a short thread explaining what these are, and the conclusions of the research 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2112.09238
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Michael Hay retweeted
Hey, we're thinking about creating a monthly newsletter about what we're doing here at @TumultLabs. Would any of y'all be interested in receiving it?
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Really looking forward to working with @TedOnPrivacy on our #differentialprivacy platform @TumultLabs.
I'm unreasonably excited to share some ✨ personal news ✨: I'm joining @TumultLabs, a startup focusing on making differential privacy usable, useful, and eventually ubiquitous 🥳 Here's why I'm excited to join them ⤵️ desfontain.es/privacy/joinin…
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It’s essential for #Census2020 data to be released in a way that protects the public from biased conclusions about the American population and protects everyone's private information, write @Harvard’s Cynthia Dwork, @ruthgreenwood, and @kinggary. trib.al/wH5bw0Y
Commerce secretary @GinaRaimondo defends the use of #differentialprivacy for the 2020 Decennial Census when asked if the Bureau is justified in using "funky math". We at @TumultLabs are proud to be helping @uscensusbureau in this effort. youtu.be/Mb872rPq9iY?t=2345
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Action packed indeed and what's more, the workshop will have (virtual) cookies! Thanks @acm_ccs!
Looks like an action packed workshop on Differential Privacy @ TPDP #ccs20 tpdp.journalprivacyconfident… If you are registered, it kicks off at 10am EST today!
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The call for papers is out for the sixth workshop on the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP) 2020. tpdp.journalprivacyconfident…
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And, yes, this is old news if you follow @thegautamkamath.
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A new conference on "Foundations of Responsible Computing" is happening June 1-2. Some interesting talks on privacy, fairness, etc. What's more, registration is free! responsiblecomputing.org/pro…
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Looking forward to participating in the OpenDP Community Meeting this W-F! Info here: opendp.io/
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We have a great program lined up for tomorrow's workshop on the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP) at @acm_ccs. Check it out: tpdp.cse.buffalo.edu/2019/
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Colleague Gerome Miklau @geromiklau presenting in the Differential Privacy Bootcamp for employees of federal statistical agencies, held at Bureau of Labor Statistics. Other presenters include Ashwin Machanavajjhala @machanavajjhala, Daniel Kifer, and myself. Bootcamp #2 of N.